"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students," — Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine. #DefendHigherEd

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon

Similar horror story here. We have a major surgery in our family coming up and have to decide whether to be financially devastated now or later.

I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself? bbc.com/news/article...

@hassan.senate.gov please stand strong and don’t cave. If we lose the ACA subsidies we will never get them back. As a constituent from Campton NH, I urge you to stand up and fight.

Keep tagging them and commenting on their posts, it is having an impact!!!! And thank @slotkin.senate.gov !!!! remember honey catches more flies than vinegar

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

On the list: Logan Not on the list: Manchester #FlyMHT

We could have just had free public college but sure yeah let’s let a select few control how and what we learn what could possibly go wrong

Never EVER click on ads on Facebook. Even if they appear legit, you can almost guarantee they aren't. Facebook is like Mos Eisley spaceport: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy."

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue. we’ll all subscribe en masse

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway. 500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food. Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9. By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

"This work is not easy, it is risky, and there’s no guarantee that those who do it will see its benefits. But it is essential." I am grateful for those in #HigherEd who stand alongside me. In the work. And now, when the work is trying to leave me behind. catherinecronin.net/reflecting/p...

Trump’s DEI Crackdown Closes 120 TRIO Programs www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi... #HigherEd

This is the best thing I've read about #OpenAccess in years. It's a far-ranging journey into so much of what is wrong and could be better in academia and our world. Plus Hothead Paisan. Seriously, read it this weekend. matthewcheney.net/blog/into-th... #OA #OER #HigherEd #libraries #OpenAccessWeek

Happy #OpenAccessWeek — here's a scattering of thoughts on openness, access, regeneration, mutual aid, academic publishing, commons, fascism, and other fun topics: matthewcheney.net/blog/into-th...

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wow, which common vaccine was it?

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

It is absolutely that infuriating. Higher Ed is slow moving institution. And it sat right up real quick for the tech companies. It wasn't the faculty. We can't make much happen unless it is on a geological timespan. I don't how long it took the admin to start shilling genAI, but it was FAST. Months?

Hot take: wealthy individuals deciding unilaterally what parts of the government they want to fund (instead of having their taxes go through the normal collective decision-making process known as legislating democratically) is bad actually:

JOB POSTING: Affordable Learning Librarian, Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (Online/Remote) for someone with expertise in #OER www.higheredjobs.com/search/detai...

We could all have nice things

Today's post by Audrey Watters mentions the loss of my job, and she nails it: " 'Jobs are already disappearing' in education – but it's not because of 'AI.' It's because of privatization and austerity." (1/4) 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/unlearning-u...

I heard Robin give an amazing keynote about how she revolutionized English 110 courses across the country with her students and OER. It inspired me to try the same in my education seminar classes. American Higher Ed is in a bad place.

It took a day without Amazon Web Services for Americans to realize how reliant the internet is on a single company. https://cnn.it/472QtBd

YOU HAVE HAD 16 YEARS

Working with Robin for 7 years has been the honor of my life. (She literally created the job I have.) What our university did to her and is doing to others is a failure of the school's administration, a failure of the board of trustees, a failure of the state legislature, a failure.

I lost my job. robinderosa.net/higher-ed/i-... #HigherEd

Okay, one king

While it's fantastic to see a gigantic No Kings turnout in large cities, when you see an enormous turn out for a small New Hampshire town...that really says a lot. We tend to stick to ourselves up here. BRAVO small town America! BRAVO! #NHPolitics #NoKings

In the past 24 hours, two more colleges have rejceted the compact. That leaves Arizona, UT Austin & Vanderbilt of the original 9 who haven’t responded. Monday is the deadline. @ryanequinn.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")? Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event. Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Huge turnout for #NoKings in our rural New Hampshire town of Plymouth. #NHPolitics

When you read this, you should be angry with the people who lied to you, and told you that it was necessary to reopen the schools without ANY protections/that children were not at risk/that schools didn't transmit COVID/that long COVID didn't exist. You should be very angry.

And now Brown University has rejected the Trump Loyalty Oath. Two down and seven to go! @aaup.org @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Brown University rejects Trump administration compact www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025... #HigherEd

County will pay former library director $700,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging officials targeted her over LGBTQ-friendly books and events. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/10/08/c...

JOB POSTING: This is a fully remote bookstore manager position at a university. Note that this position reports to the library director, and I have good intel that they are actively seeking a LIBRARIAN for this role. Cool! www.excelsior.edu/job/academic... (That's all I know, so I can't help more!)

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

Now is (past) time to put forward Dem leaders who truly represent the left. Later we will hear, “fall in line we have no other options!” Don’t want people to skip voting or vote 3rd party? Elevate candidates who stand up for human dignity. Showboaters don’t serve us. We are not asking too much.

Northeast #OER Summit cfp Building Bridges: Linking Local Foundations to Global Horizons Virtual Conference Dates: Wednesday & Thursday, March 25-26, 2026 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 5, 2026 neoer.umasscreate.net

From my union: "The Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda stinks of favoritism, patronage, and bribery. It is entirely corrupt." www.aaup.org/news/univers...

A U.S. District Court has ruled that the Escambia County School Board of Florida, acting as a government agent, can force school libraries to remove a children’s book about a same-sex penguin couple. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/fede...